Section 102 Good News and Bad News (Part II)
There was undoubtedly good news here for Cecilia, and it was the good news that Solomon had been waiting for.
As he had secretly predicted, if there was a way to harness the thin magic in the black rock, the value of the black rock would increase dramatically, and it could bring about a sea change.
And the greater the role of Black Rock, Solomon's value will undoubtedly rise with the tide, after all, he is currently the largest "pioneer" of Black Rock, although theoretically that plane belongs to Asturias, but as long as Solomon is alive, he has the right to dispose of it in Asturias for life, which can be said to be on par with the power of the feudal lord, what is missing is only hereditary rights, after his death, it will belong to the royal family and cannot be inherited.
Moreover, Black Rock can also drive the dwarven machinery, although this is a world with the height of a magical civilization, but the dwarven machinery is not useless, but it is suppressed by the magical civilization.
But for more ordinary people or people who do not have the qualifications of magicians, machinery has the advantage of being easy to master and easy to manufacture.
Bidding farewell to Cecilia, Solomon pondered how to continue to convince Kindleberg that he had to move them in order to get some investment from them, and that he could borrow more money from Franklin Bank in their name.
Although he was the principal of the Franklin Bank at St. Quentin, it was impossible to use the money as he wanted, and there had to be a suitable reason, and there was no better reason than to borrow money from a group of merchants.
But Kindleberg they are not fools, so don't say borrowing from the bank in their name, refusing Solomon's request just by putting money into their own hands.
They trust and appreciate Solomon's personal abilities, but that doesn't mean they're willing to invest in Solomon's actions. And it can't take the lead. Unless Solomon can prove that the stakes are very great. And their peace of mind dividends are the best choice.
Now that there is a big killer weapon like Black Rock, Solomon is not without a chance to convince them, but if he opens his mouth, he has to think about it.
But before he could think about it, he was summoned again, and he hurried to Regina.
"You're here. ”
As soon as they met, Solomon was startled by Regina, who greeted him.
The old man was a little haggard, and his eyes were bloodshot. It's as if I didn't sleep well.
"Congratulations, you won the chess championship. Regina smiled.
"Thank you. Is something happening?" asked Solomon.
"Well, it's something. Regina nodded, "I want to ask you, how much time does your legion have to be formed?"
"It's going to take some time. Solomon said vaguely, and suddenly as if he realized something, he looked up sharply and said, "Could it be that something happened to Yugudral and Farusion again?"
"Yes, this time it's Aurora. Regina smiled bitterly, "Aurora is increasing his troops at the same time as Farusion and Yugudral. ”
Aurora? Solomon knew about this nation, among the Great 6 nations. The oldest and most inherited is of course Titania. The second is Saxon, although Modo is small, but in terms of historical time, it is comparable to Asturias, only Aurora has the shortest time to establish the country.
But in terms of strength, Aurora is not inferior to Asturias or Saxon, and is far stronger than the small country of Modo.
"But where did they get so many troops?" said Solomon, in a deep voice.
You must know that dimensional warfare is not about who has more soldiers, but more than who can teleport past.
The Auroras are often close to the orcs, and their warriors are by no means weaker than Asturias, and there are also strong men in the country, but this does not mean that they can get their hands on both Yugudral and Farusion.
"They hired orcs. Regina unraveled the mystery and surprised Solomon.
There are people like him, and they are still ahead of the curve.
"Is it the Tygo?" Solomon reacted immediately.
"Tygo, and Kau, well, and Srek. Regina said slowly.
Kau has always followed Tygo's actions, since Taggo will appear in both planes, it is not surprising that Kau also appeared, but even the Srek snake man also appeared, which shows that another part of the orcs also took advantage of the fact that Emperor Beamon on the Skyfire Plateau had other ideas when he was young, and put them into action, and the Terrans in Turing City exhibited a similar relationship with Solomon and their relationship with Rhine and Wolf.
This is bad news, which can make Regina's face so ugly, presumably because of the appearance of the orc army, Asturias has suffered in both planes.
However, this was also good news, and if Rhine and Wolf had known about it, it would have greatly boosted their determination and commitment to cooperate with Solomon, not just the number of people who had committed half an army as they had promised.
"They attacked our territory in both planes and drove the garrisons away, but they were replaced by the Aurora, so it's almost certain that they were hired by the Aurora. Regina said.
And according to Reginer, it wasn't just one plane that was attacked, both Farusion and Yugudral.
In normal times, this might also attract the common enemies of other countries, but in this situation, other countries are expected to not say anything, and the Church of Light must acquiesce.
"Now is a very critical moment, His Majesty has specially convened a meeting of nobles for this purpose to speed up the unity of command, otherwise we will face an even worse shape in both planes. Regina said worriedly.
The Aurora is undoubtedly a temptation acquiesced by the Church of Light, and once it turns out that Asturias is unable to resist, then the next step is to be constantly attacked in both planes, losing resource points.
And the most hateful thing is that the Aurora will claim that the Asturians are incompetent, attacked by the orc army, and they fought bravely and defeated the orcs to gain the resource points.
But the orcs didn't have mastered the teleportation magic array at all, and if someone hadn't let them in, how could there have been an attack.
"I'm sure I'll be able to assemble the legion in two months. Solomon said.
"Can you go faster, the big war may break out at any time, a month, you only have a month at most. Regina gasped slightly.
Solomon grinned, a month was a bit too tight, but he didn't say anything.
"I'll try as much as I can. ”
"Do your best. Regina sighed, he didn't put all his hopes on Solomon, and asked Solomon because of Solomon's plan that he had revealed before, and he was slow to recruit orcs to form a legion.
"Sir, maybe we can send more soldiers to other planes. Solomon said.
"More soldiers?" Regina was stunned at first, then shocked, and quickly looked at Solomon, "Do you already have a way to lower the threshold for teleportation?"
"Yes. Solomon replied without hesitation, and only then did he tell the story of his cooperation with the Dwarves and Cecilia on the Black Rock and the successful separation of the magicians.
"According to Cecilia's idea, since it is impossible to break the ice in the direction of effectively increasing the utilization rate, then why can't we go back to the way of increasing the power of Tongguò to improve the protection of living beings in the process of teleportation?" Solomon concluded.
"Yes, yes. "Regina himself is also a ** master, of course he can figure out this truth, and he will wake up, before the magicians may have also thought about it like this, but the reality I saw at that time was that there were only magic crystals, who dared to burn magic crystals like this to teleport low-level creatures, even the ** division could not afford to burn them, and the production of magic crystals in the hands of the human race could not support the consumption of this kind of Cheng dù.
But now with Black Rock it's different, if as Solomon said, magic power can really be extracted from that black rock, and Black Rock can be supplied on a large scale, unlike the limited production of magic crystals, then the problem of source power is theoretically solved, and the rest is the cost problem.
The issue of cost is of course very important, but it is not impossible to solve according to Solomon.
That is to take advantage of the mechanical technology of the dwarves, and since the black rock can be extracted while providing mechanical power, it is completely possible to vigorously introduce mechanical technology.
In this way, the mechanical technology itself can replace part of the labor, and at the same time, the black rock can be used as a burning consumption to extract a steady stream of mana.
In Solomon's mind, the Black Rock and the Dwarves' machinery could bring about the effect of the first industrial revolution, although under the suppression of this magical civilization, this effect would not be as earth-shaking as in the world he came from, but it was still enough to have a greater impact on ordinary people, and even produce a dualistic civilization.
Magic may be monopolized by the gifted, they will be the elite, and the machine will be unleashed by the impetus of power.
These two are not contradictory, you might as well think of things like teleportation magic as high-end technological results, you must know that in the world before Solomon crossed over, human beings have not really flown out of the solar system, so the two can be combined.
Solomon's plan was to channel the dwarves and their mechanical technology to the merchants, so that the dwarves could play the role of forerunners and engineers, and the merchants would be investors, and with his own conceptual guidance, the world would definitely have some of the fruits of the industrial revolution to improve production efficiency.
The reason why this effect did not occur in the past was because the dwarves were defeated by the Terrans and hid in the Ice and Snow Realm, and the magical civilization inhibited the progress of another civilization.
And since there is no strict concept of money, there is no guiding role of capital.
In fact, the dwarves' research on machinery is not intensive and guided, most of them are scattered and study their own machines, based on interest, or in the harsh living conditions, in order to change the environment and almost instinctively study machinery.
Only a few will join forces to study, but they are also based on the same interests or friendships with each other, such as Borok and Cecilia, the Terran mage. (To be continued......)
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